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Ralph W. Kuncl

Ralph W. Kuncl is an American neurologist and ALS researcher who served as the 11th president of the University of Redlands from 2012 to 2021, after provostships at Bryn Mawr College and the University of Rochester.

Ralph W. Muller

Ralph W. Muller is an American health-system executive who served as chief executive of the University of Chicago Hospitals and the University of Pennsylvania Health System from 2003 to 2019.

Ralph Wedgwood (pediatric immunologist)

Ralph Wedgwood, or Ralph J. Wedgwood, was an English-born American pediatric immunologist who co-founded pediatric immunology, chairing Pediatrics at the University of Washington from 1963 to 1972.

Ralph Wright

Ralph Wright (1930–1990) was a South African-born British hepatologist and clinical immunologist, professor at Southampton, best known for linking the Australia antigen to chronic liver disease.

Ralstonia

Ralstonia is a genus of Gram-negative Betaproteobacteria in the Burkholderiaceae, proposed by Yabuuchi et al. in 1995 and named after bacteriologist E. Ralston. It includes the bacterial wilt pathogen R. solanacearum species complex and opportunistic clinical species such as R. pickettii.

Ralstonia solanacearum

Ralstonia solanacearum is a soil-borne bacterium causing bacterial wilt and potato brown rot; it infects more than 200 plant species and ranks among the world's most damaging plant pathogens.

Ram Sasisekharan

Ram Sasisekharan is an American biological engineer and MIT professor since 1996, known for glycan sequencing, the 2008 heparin contamination investigation, and founding Momenta Pharmaceuticals.

Rama Khokha

Rama Khokha is a Canadian cancer biologist, Senior Scientist at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre and University of Toronto professor, known for work on the tumor microenvironment and TIMP genes.

Rama Natarajan

Rama Natarajan is an American scientist at City of Hope who studies the epigenetics of diabetic vascular complications, including metabolic memory and microRNAs in diabetic kidney disease.

Rama Ranganathan

Rama Ranganathan is a biophysicist at the University of Chicago who studies protein structure, function, and evolution, and is known for the concept of protein sectors.

Rama Rao Amara

Rama Rao Amara, also known as Rama Amara, is an Indian immunologist and virologist at Emory University known for the DNA/MVA prime-boost HIV vaccine platform and PD-1 blockade studies toward a functional cure.

Ramachandran S. Vasan

Ramachandran S. Vasan, also published as Vasan S. Ramachandran, is an Indian-born American cardiologist and Founding Dean of the School of Public Health at UT Health San Antonio.

Ramanan Laxminarayan

Ramanan Laxminarayan is an American health economist who studies antimicrobial resistance as an economics problem, leads the One Health Trust, and serves as a senior research scholar at Princeton University.

Ramani Durvasula

Ramani Durvasula, known online as "Doctor Ramani," is an American clinical psychologist, professor emerita at California State University, Los Angeles, and author of books on narcissism.

Ramanujan Hegde

Ramanujan S. Hegde, known as Manu Hegde, is a British-based biochemist at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge who studies protein translocation and quality control.

Ramaswamy Govindan

Ramaswamy Govindan is an Indian-born American medical oncologist at Washington University in St. Louis, known for lung cancer genomics research and as senior author of the sotorasib trial.

Ramathibodi Hospital

Ramathibodi Hospital (โรงพยาบาลรามาธิบดี), Bangkok, is the public university teaching hospital of Mahidol University's Faculty of Medicine, Thailand's fourth medical school, founded 1964-1969, with about 1,073 beds and a new Yothi Medical Innovation District under construction.

Ramatroban

Ramatroban (BAY u3405, Baynas) is a Bayer-developed dual thromboxane TP and CRTH2/DP2 receptor antagonist marketed in Japan for allergic rhinitis, dosed 75 mg twice daily, with hepatitis and jaundice as notable adverse reactions.

Rambutan

Rambutan (Nephelium lappaceum, Vietnamese Chom Chom, Thai Ngo) is a Sapindaceae tropical tree from southern China to Malesia with hairy red fruit, sweet aril, 1.4 Mt annual Southeast Asian production, Indonesia largest producer.

Rambutan cultivars

Rambutan cultivars are named, clonally propagated selections of the tropical rambutan tree Nephelium lappaceum, with over 200 cultivars across tropical Asia, all derived by cloning superior trees rather than cross-breeding.

Ramdev (रामदेव)

Ramdev (रामदेव), also Baba Ramdev, born Ram Kisan Yadav in 1965, is an Indian yoga guru who popularized yoga via Aastha TV and co-founded Patanjali Ayurved, later facing Supreme Court action over misleading medicine ads.

Rameen Beroukhim

Rameen Beroukhim is a cancer geneticist and neuro-oncologist at Dana-Farber, Harvard, and the Broad Institute, known for the 2010 pan-cancer copy-number survey and the GISTIC algorithm.

Ramelteon

Ramelteon (Rozerem), FDA-approved July 22, 2005 by Takeda, is a prescription MT1/MT2 melatonin receptor agonist for sleep-onset insomnia; 8 mg at bedtime, not a controlled substance, contraindicated with fluvoxamine.

Ramesh Pillai

Ramesh S. Pillai is a Swiss-based RNA biologist, a full professor at the University of Geneva since 2016, known for work on piRNAs and RNA modifications.

Ramesh Shivdasani

Ramesh Shivdasani is a physician-scientist and Harvard Medical School professor at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, known for identifying NF-E2's role in platelet formation and studying colorectal cancer initiation.

Rami Burstein

Rami Burstein is a neuroscientist and headache researcher who is the John Hedley-Whyte Professor at Harvard Medical School, known for work on migraine pain and light sensitivity.

Ramin Shiekhattar

Ramin Shiekhattar is an American molecular biologist at the University of Miami whose lab defined the human RISC complex in 2005 and enhancer-like long noncoding RNAs in 2010.

Ramipril

Ramipril (Altace, Tritace) is an ACE inhibitor prodrug converted to ramiprilat, used for hypertension, post-MI heart failure, and cardiovascular risk reduction; HOPE trial showed 22% relative risk reduction in MI, stroke, or cardiovascular death.

Ramnik J. Xavier

Ramnik J. Xavier is a gastroenterologist and molecular biologist at the Broad Institute and Harvard Medical School who studies the gut microbiome in inflammatory bowel disease.

Ramón Bataller

Ramón Bataller is a Spanish hepatologist known for work on liver fibrosis and alcohol-associated liver disease, leading the Steatohepatitis and liver transplantation group at Hospital Clínic de Barcelona.